Past Events
2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies
featuring His Excellency Dr. Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi
VIRTUAL SEATING ONLY NOW AVAILABLE - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-distinguished-…
The Inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science
A Conversation Dr.Brent Staples. Moderated by Dr.Tukufu Zuberi
The Inaugural W.E.B. Lecture in Public Social Science: A Conversation with Dr. Brent Staples, New York Times. Moderated by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi,…
Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly and Histories of American Education
A Book Talk with Dr. Jarvis R. Givens
Jarvis R. Givens is an associate professor of education and African & African American studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of…
Beyond America’s Racial Fault Line – A dialogue with Ben Jealous
A conversation about his new book "Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing"
Ben Jealous has spent his professional life at the nexus of social change, media, and emerging technologies.
He is a former Democratic Nominee for Governor of Maryland, former National President & CEO of…
MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.…
Tara Bynum Book Launch
Tara A. Bynum is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Barra Sabbatical Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Book…
Digital Humanities & Black Digital Heritage
Featuring Dorothy Berry
Dorothy Berry is a Digital Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and she is a leading voice in Black Digital Humanities and Black Cultural Heritage. Her talk will address…
2022 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
Feat. Dean Linda Sheryl Greene
Linda Sheryl Greene is Dean and MSU Foundation Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and an elected life member of The American Law Institute.
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Penn Alumni Reading Club with Akira Drake Rodriguez
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
Join author and Weitzman School of Design Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez for an interactive online discussion of her new book Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing…
A Reading By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and the Kelly Writers House With additional support from the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (GR'12) is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary; The Poetics of Difference:…